Chapter 617 She's Very Well-Behaved (Forty-Six)
Shang Shang looked at Yan Lei standing at the door with great surprise, holding food in his hand: "What are you doing here?"
Yan Lei smiled and picked up the lunchbox in his hand: "I figured you guys hadn't slept, so I bought you some late-night snacks."
Shang Shang laughed: "Then you guessed right. We just asked the boss to deliver wontons. When you knocked, I thought it was the wonton delivery."
Quickly let Yan Lei into the house.
Yan Lei placed two bags of food on the coffee table: "I don't know what you guys are eating, but after drinking some wine, some porridge will definitely make you feel better. I bought lean meat porridge and vegetable porridge, as well as some steamed buns and potstickers. See what you want to eat."
Du Mengmeng stared at Yan Lei with red and swollen eyes.
Yan Lei glanced at her, somewhat surprised: "Why are your eyes so red? Did you cry? What happened?"
Du Mengmeng rubbed her eyes and snorted coldly, "None of your business?"
Then she knelt on the ground and searched to see if there was anything she liked to eat.
Shang Shang went to the kitchen and brought out bowls, chopsticks, and soup spoons. She sat down to serve the porridge to everyone, and then asked in a low voice, "Where is Pei Yanli?"
Yan Lei chuckled, "He went back. I only came back after he left. How about that? I was more thoughtful than him, wasn't I?"
Shang Shang laughed: "Pei Yanli is also very good."
Yan Lei exclaimed twice, "Is this what they mean by protecting her?"
Shang Shang first served Wang Jianni a bowl of porridge: "Perfect, you need some porridge to nourish yourself, you sweated a lot just now."
Du Mengmeng said coquettishly, "Shangshang, I want to drink porridge too, I need to replenish myself."
Wang Jianni, holding her bowl, sneered, "You just spilled the water out of your brain. You should be smart now."
Du Mengmeng let out two fake sobs and then decided to do it herself.
Yan Lei watched from the side and clicked his tongue twice: "Looks like you've sobered up. You two sobered up pretty quickly tonight. Didn't you drink enough?"
Du Mengmeng rested her chin on one hand and used the other to feed herself porridge with a spoon: "From now on, I'm giving up alcohol. It's too painful to drink alcohol because it gives me a headache."
Yan Lei was afraid that she would fall headfirst into the bowl while drinking, so he reached out and pushed her: "If you really can't, just call out 'brother,' and I'll feed you."
Du Mengmeng reached out to hit him: "Are you looking for death, Yan Shitou? You're a month younger than me, so you should call me 'older sister'."
Yan Lei, being quite obedient, immediately greeted her with a grin, "Sister."
Shang Shang and Wang Jiani silently turned around with their bowls of porridge, unable to bear watching Yan Lei tease Du Mengmeng.
The doorbell rang again, and Shang Shang thought that this time it must be the wonton delivery.
He ran to open the door, and there was Pei Yanli!
Pei Yanli carried a large stainless steel insulated bucket in one hand and a plastic bag containing disposable lunch boxes in the other.
Shang Shang was shocked, then burst into laughter: "Hahaha, Yan Lei just delivered the food too. Is this the wontons we ordered?"
Pei Yanli was surprised that Yan Lei had come. He chuckled and said, "Yeah, I ran into him in the elevator. He asked if it was for you, and I accepted it."
Shang Shang reached out and tugged at Pei Yanli's sleeve: "Are you guys going to feed the three of us like little piglets today? Yan Lei also bought a lot of delicious food."
Yan Lei looked at Pei Yanli in surprise: "You said you were coming, so I waited for you. I even took a taxi back and forth."
Pei Yanli merely glanced at him and placed the food on the coffee table.
Yan Lei quickly cleared a large empty space, let Pei Yanli take out his lunchbox, and opened the lunchbox he had brought.
Yan Lei glanced at the lunchbox Pei Yanli had brought and exclaimed, "Holy crap, Lao Pei, did you make these wontons on the spot?"
They don't look like the ones you buy outside; the skin is thin and the filling is generous, and each one is round and plump, just like dumplings.
Shang Shang glanced at it, her eyes lit up, and she handed the bowl to Pei Yanli: "I want to eat this."
Pei Yanli smiled, took the bowl, put a few wontons in it, and poured out some soup.
Yan Lei clicked his tongue twice: "Look how thoughtful Lao Pei is, he even packed the wontons and soup separately. This makes it seem like I didn't put any thought into buying these."
Shang Shang laughed and said, "They're all good, but Pei Yanli's wontons are especially delicious."
It tasted so much better than what she ordered from the restaurant.
Pei Yanli smiled as he watched her eat: "Would you like some more?"
Shang Shang quickly shook her head: "That's enough, that's enough. I've already had some porridge."
They brought so much food that Pei Yanli and Yan Lei also participated, and they couldn't finish it all.
There's quite a bit left over, and even if we reheat it for the next meal, it won't taste good.
Yan Lei was about to clean up and throw it away when Shang Shang stopped him: "No, no, pour out the soup, put the dry stuff together, and freeze it in the freezer. I'll go to the base later and feed the stray dogs there."
From a young age, their grandparents forbade them from throwing away leftovers; if they couldn't finish their food, they were allowed to feed it to small animals.
So, over the years, the leftover food at home has been used to feed the stray cats and dogs near the shelter.
Yan Lei was somewhat surprised: "I didn't expect the Zhou family's little princess to be so frugal with food!"
Shang Shang glared at him: "Don't talk nonsense. Our lives were pretty much the same when we were kids. Food was very precious back then, have you forgotten?"
Yan Lei thought for a moment and looked at Pei Yanli: "I didn't suffer when I was a child, and neither did the three of you, except for Lao Pei. Lao Pei really suffered when he was a child."
Shang Shang was somewhat surprised and turned to look at Pei Yanli.
Pei Yanli just smiled and said, "It's alright, not as bad as Yan Lei described."
As she spoke, she tidied up the trash on the table and took the dishes to the kitchen to wash.
Shang Shang followed her over: "Shall I wash it? Or you can throw it in the dishwasher downstairs."
The dishwasher was brought back from abroad by Shangxingzhou. Shangshang rarely uses it, mainly because he hardly ever cooks here. Sometimes he just cooks instant noodles and that's his meal, so it's not worth using.
Pei Yanli put the bowls and chopsticks into the sink and turned on the tap: "No need, I'll wash them. Could you get me an apron?"
Shang Shang ran over to grab an apron and helped Pei Yanli put it on: "This is new, it's never been used. I rarely stay here and don't cook much here. These are all new."
Pei Yanli smiled and said, "Okay, you go sit with them. I'll be done washing up in a bit."
Shang Shang didn't move, but moved closer to Pei Yanli, smiling with her eyes crinkling: "Your wontons are so delicious, just as delicious as my aunt's."
Pei Yanli smiled and said, "I'll make it for you later. This time, it's the same one I wrapped last time."
Shang Shang was somewhat surprised: "How come you're such a good cook? Did you learn to cook abroad?"
She felt that Pei Yanli had to learn to cook Chinese food because he couldn't get used to Western food abroad.
Pei Yanli shook his head: "No, I've known how since I was little. Yan Lei is right about one thing. I grew up in the countryside and had to do many things myself."
Shang Shang asked in surprise, "Didn't you grow up in Beijing?"
Pei Yanli didn't mind that Shang Shang knew his identity: "I was born out of wedlock and lived in the countryside with very poor conditions until I was twelve years old."
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